BOSTON (MA)
Boston Globe
By Matt Byrne
| Globe Correspondent
January 09, 2012
Several dozen demonstrated outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross yesterday. Lifting or extending statute of limitations rules is the prime focus of some in the anti-abuse movement.
It’s a stretch of sidewalk like many others, but to Steve Lewis it remains sacred ground.
He was among several dozen who gathered yesterday outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End, carrying signs and telling the stories many kept inside for decades.
“This is where it all started,’’ said Lewis, 54, who said he was abused as a child in a Lynn parish. “This is such an important, special place for the victims, the survivors.’’
The demonstration marked closure for a weekend conference that focused on the scandal. Victims and activists organized the gathering to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the news coverage that documented a widespread coverup in the Archdiocese of Boston of sexual abuse among clergy.
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